What is a utility for monitoring a computer with a report every 60 seconds to the server?

Question

PHP

Tell me if there is a utility for Windows XP, 7, 8 to monitor the system. The minimum functionality is once in an arbitrary interval of time to knock HTTP GET on your site, reporting that the computer is working, there is Internet. Maybe passing some more useful data. We need a simple application, not some wild harvester =)
On my knee I made a BAT file with php.exe, which every 60 seconds knocks on the server at .../rs.php and that's it. Time, IP, 1 parameter passed by GET is written in the database on the server, I want a more elegant solution with wider functionality, maybe restarting the server on command or something else.

Answer 1

I think there is no such program, too specific.
It's easier to write a daemon that will notify the server and listen for the necessary commands on the port.